Tech Blogs - Tutorials Dojo

AI Agents on Azure: Practical Insights for Learners
Many people learning Azure still struggle with repetitive manual tasks. AI Agents on Azure for learners offer a practical way to handle these challenges. When a 2 AM alert fires, the usual process involves manually checking the cause, reviewing affected processes, and examining the whole system. AI agents can [...]
What Happens When AI Can Start Buying Things for You? — Understanding UCP
Imagine asking an AI: “Find me a mechanical keyboard under ₱3,000 and just order it for me.” And instead of giving you links… it actually completes the purchase. Sounds convenient, but also a bit unsettling at the same time. That might sound futuristic, but this idea is becoming increasingly [...]
Amazon S3 Files: Object Storage Meets File Performance
Hello, Dojos! If you're a student or an aspiring architect, you know Amazon S3 is the "infinite warehouse" of the cloud. It’s perfect for storing massive datasets, but it can be slow to grab one small file when your code is running. Traditionally, you had to manually copy data [...]
From Guided Labs to Real Projects: How Azure PlayCloud Labs Helps Beginners Apply What They Learn
When beginners first explore cloud computing, one common assumption is that they need to understand everything before they can start building anything. For many learners, platforms like Azure can feel overwhelming at first, not because the concepts are impossible, but because the environment looks complex and production-like, where mistakes [...]
How I Used AI to Teach Myself Python (No Coding Background Required)
The problem: our education was not enough Companies today are aggressively hiring for AI and tech skills. The job postings are everywhere. But here is the uncomfortable truth: the education most of us received did not prepare us for this shift. I took Computer Engineering in college, but it [...]
You Don’t Need to Start Over in Tech: Turning Your Past Skills Into an Advantage
When people talk about entering the tech field, one idea often comes up: that starting over in tech means you have to start from zero. For many students and beginners, this belief can feel intimidating. It creates the impression that only those with a strong technical background can succeed, [...]
Learning from Tutorials Is Easy But Can You Build Without Them?
You’ve probably done this before, especially if you’ve been learning from tutorials online. You open a YouTube video, follow along step by step, and after a few hours, you end up with something that actually works. Maybe it’s a website, an app, or just a small project you found [...]
From Render to Revenue: Automating Your Creative Workflow with AWS and Python
As a content creator, your value lies in your vision, not in the three hours you spend renaming files, transcoding 4K footage into proxies, or manually uploading clips to five different social platforms. In the industry, we call the repetitive, soul-crushing tasks "undifferentiated heavy lifting." In this article, we’ll [...]
Why Having a Portfolio (With Real Projects) Changes Everything
When I first started learning tech, I genuinely thought the only thing that mattered was stacking skills. I kept chasing tutorials, certifications, and whatever tool people said was “in demand,” because it felt like the safest way to grow. But the biggest turning point in my journey happened when I [...]
Claude Skills Guide: Best Skills to Use Right Now (2026 Edition)
Claude Skills are quickly becoming one of the most powerful ways to use AI effectively, but the growing number of available Skills has also made things more confusing. With thousands of options across GitHub and community hubs, it’s easy to assume that more Skills automatically mean better results. In reality, [...]

Build a Model-Agnostic AI Text Summarizer Web Extension

Browser extensions are a great way to bring AI directly into your everyday workflows. Instead of copying text into external tools and websites to be summarized, you can do it right on the page. In this tutorial, we'll build a lightweight, model-agnostic Chrome extension that summarizes selected text using AI. With a simple right-click, users can send any highlighted text to an AI model of their choice and instantly view a concise summary in [...]

AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless Simplicity with EC2 Control

AWS Lambda Managed Instances marks a significant evolution in serverless computing. For years, standard Lambda was the default for running code without infrastructure management, but it offered limited control over the underlying hardware. This new capability changes that by combining serverless simplicity with Amazon EC2 flexibility. Announced at AWS re:Invent 2025, this feature enables Lambda functions to run on designated Amazon EC2 instances. You choose the hardware configuration, while AWS manages the infrastructure. [...]

How to Generate Simple Document Embeddings with Python

Document embeddings are one of the simplest ways to give machines an understanding of text, and in our previous article, Document Embeddings Explained: A Guide for Beginners, we explored how they turn entire documents into dense numerical vectors that capture meaning and context. Now that you understand what embeddings are and why they’re useful for tasks like semantic search, classification, and clustering, this tutorial will show you how to generate them in practice using [...]

Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and Amazon Security Lake

Amazon Security Lake is a managed service that collects and stores security logs from AWS services, on-premises systems, and supported third-party tools. It automatically converts all incoming data into Apache Parquet and formats everything using the OCSF schema. This setup allows different kinds of security logs to follow one consistent structure instead of having separate formats. With this unified approach, teams no longer need to decode or reorganize data manually because Security Lake handles [...]

Can Gemini 3 Replace My AI Toolkit?

I've always approached AI with one mindset: use whatever tool gets the job done fastest and cleanest. I'm not loyal to one model, one company, or one ecosystem. I switch between tools depending on what my day looks like. In school, that might mean summarizing academic papers. At work or during self-study, that might mean debugging code or reviewing a cloud diagram. For daily life, it might just mean drafting an email or organizing [...]

AWS Vector Databases Explained: Semantic Search and RAG Systems

The generative AI (GenAI) revolution has transformed how organizations extract value from their data. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating human-like text, their true enterprise potential is unlocked only when they can access proprietary, domain-specific information. This necessity has propelled vector databases from a specialized niche into an essential pillar of modern AI infrastructure. But First, What Are Vector Databases? A vector database, as its name suggests, is [...]

Self-Hosting Judge0: A Step-by-Step Guide Using Amazon EC2, Lambda, and S3

Judge0 is a powerful, open-source code execution system widely used by online coding platforms to run programs in secure environments. However, while it is often accessed as a third-party service, self-hosting Judge0 on AWS significantly grants you complete control over configuration and security. In fact, this level of ownership is essential for handling sensitive data or customizing language support. Moreover, self-hosting enables greater scalability, thereby allowing you to adapt the system as your requirements [...]

Shaping the Future of Student Technopreneurs in the Philippines through AWS Cloud Club PUP e:Novators

BGC, Philippines—November 21, 2025—Designed for working students, budding entrepreneurs, small startups, hackathon enthusiasts, and aspiring tech founders, the Alfred’s Engine Room: Crafting Tomorrow’s Ventures: Kick-off and Ideation 2025 marked the official launch of AWS Cloud Club PUP e:Novators, a community built to empower the next generation of bold visionaries and innovators. As the first innovation hub in AWS Cloud Clubs in the Philippines, it was the beginning of a movement through continuous learning, collaboration, [...]

The Cash Cow + Investment Model: A Career Blueprint from Tutorials Dojo’s CEO

Imagine spending weeks building a course, only to watch it fail. That’s exactly what happened in 2019 to the founder of Tutorials Dojo, Jon Bonso. He had spent weeks building a React Native course. He recorded, edited, and re-recorded, hoping people would buy it. However when it finally launched, the effort didn’t match the reward. It was one of those career-defining moments where you ask yourself: “Am I even in the right industry?” Instead [...]

AWS Strands Agent SOPs – Your Natural Language Agentic AI Workflow Tool

If you're someone whose work involves AI automation or a developer, you'll know that Modern AI agents are powerful but notoriously difficult to guide with consistency. You put the same thing in twice, you get two drastically different results. There are two ways of driving Modern AI agents: Code defined workflows Fully model-driven agents Code-defined workflows offer precision but require heavy reengineering to update. Fully model-driven agents offer flexibility but can behave unpredictably. Agent [...]